It wasn’t until I was eleven that she would explain why and not until I was an adult that I would fully understand.
Danior’s Cadbury Crème Egg Cake Recipe
Need an ooey-gooey dessert for the Easter table? Cadbury Creme Eggs are pretty much the best thing about Easter so why not a three-layer cake that taste like one? I’m pretty confident you all know how to bake a cake. As a matter of fact, you probably do it much better than I ever could. I tend to cheat and use the boxed version so I won’t waste my breath there, except to say bake 3 round ones.
Ingredients Ganache:
18 oz. Cadbury milk chocolate, chopped
4 TBS butter
1 1/3 cups heavy cream
Ingredients creme egg fondant filling:
4 1/2 TBS butter, softened
3/4 cup maple syrup
3 1/3 cups powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 tsp salt
yellow food coloring gel
Ingredients cream cheese frosting:
1 8-oz. package cream cheese, softened
2 sticks butter, softened
8 1/2 cups powdered sugar
For garnish:
1 package Cadbury crème egg minis
6 – 12 regular Cadbury crème eggs
2 – 4 Cadbury milk chocolate bars, chopped, for sprinkling onto the icing layers
For the ganache:
Place chocolate and butter in medium heatproof bowl. Heat cream until boiling and pour cream over chocolate and butter. Let stand 2 minutes, then whisk until smooth and incorporated. Mixture may appear grainy; keep whisking and it will smooth out. Cover and set aside to thicken to icing consistency, which takes several hours at room temperature.
For the creme egg fondant filling:
Beat the butter, syrup, vanilla, and salt in the bowl of an electric mixer with the paddle attachment. Gradually add the powdered sugar, followed by the yellow food coloring to tint the mixture to the desired shade of yellow. Beat until smooth. Cover and set aside.
For the cream cheese icing:
Beat the cream cheese and butter together until light and fluffy and completely blended. Gradually beat in the powdered sugar until smooth and thick. Use immediately, or else cover and store in the refrigerator.
Assembly:
Place one cake layer onto a serving platter or cake circle. Spread half the cream cheese icing onto the cake layer and swirl approximately half of the fondant onto and into the cream cheese icing. Evenly sprinkle 1 – 2 chopped Cadbury milk chocolate bars onto the icing. Top with a second cake layer and repeat the icing procedure; sprinkle with an additional 1 – 2 chopped chocolate bars. Top with the third cake layer and ice cake with thickened ganache. Decorate as desired with Cadbury crème eggs, cracking them open and drizzling their filling down the sides of the cake.
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Rachael Stapleton lives in a Second-Empire Victorian home with her husband and two children in Canada, where she dashes about aged wood, arched dormers and snowy hills, making up holiday themed whodunit stories.
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Authors Note
Thank you for reading the first book in my Bohemian Murder Manor series. Hopefully you aren’t tiring of my need for tropes—fortune tellers, secret passages and magical books, oh my! Blame it on those crazy 80’s Saturday morning cartoons. Now I’m feeling nostalgic. Anyway, before I break out the Walkman and Nintendo games, I should probably thank a few people.
Writing a book is a solitary pursuit, and yet it requires plenty of help and support to reach the end. I’m no exception. It has been a delight to work with Susan Croft, a talented editor who provided great ideas, as well as understanding at crucial moments. My beta reader, Denise Howeth, or the hawk as I like to think of her. If catching homonyms were a sport, she’d be my star player. Mariah Sinclair, my cozy cover designer, and of course my readers. You make writing fun!
Many thanks to the members of 20Books for their enduring passion and wisdom. I have learned more about writing and marketing in the last eight months than I’ve learned in the last ten years. The collective brain is a beautiful thing. And of course, many thanks to my crazy family and friends, who inspired many a detail and/or character in this story. If you want more, please be sure to review them on Amazon so I can afford to continue. Come and say hello on my Facebook page, Twitter or my website. I post teasers, new covers and offer up giveaways in my monthly newsletters.
With much gratitude,
Rachael
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